The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-02-17
NEWS AND NOTES.


A Hemlock (Mich.) man humanely
chloroforns his hogs before he butchers
them.
There has not been prisoner in the
lie Seuer county (Minn.) Jail for three
months.
Only S73 women voted ut the recent
municipal election in Boston; the num-
Der in 1886 was 2.O62.
A Pokagon (Micl.) man found a
bear tooth in the center Of solid log
recently while chopping.
Mrs. Gladstone has captured the
Lady Presidentship Of the Liberal
League Of Great Britain.
Hans Hanson of Pipestonc County,
Minn., has daughter IL years old who
has plowed liz acres OF his farm for
him.
The Pail Mall Gazette asserts that
England has practically decided to
adopt the Lee American rifle for her
army.
The preachers Of Cheyboygan. Mich.
have decided not to perform the mar
riage ceremony for any person who has
been divorced.
A Philadelphia woman who was told
by her physician that she must give up
lacing or die. stuck to the corset and
died game.
Charles Francis Adams left an estate
valued at $l,O26, 900, besides making
generous provision for each of his chill
dren while he lived.
A man who refused to pay for 4 meal
in an Ionia (Mich.) restaurant was
promptly knocked down with can of
tomatoes by waiter.
Boston gamblers are frightened over
the prospect of the passage by the
Massachusetts legislature of law
against gambling Il, that State.
Judge Miracle is candidate for the
| Supreme Bench iii Iowa, and is said to
be a very able and upright Judge.
Under these circumstances it will be
miracle if he gets there.
Lucy Stone predicts that woman
will be president of the United States
in the year 1000. 1t is feared that
both Kate Field and Susan b. Anthony
will be too old by that time.
Jack Sprain was appointed Post
master at Big Springs, ILL.,, by Presi-
dent jackson in 1884. He resigned
the other day, and received a check for
$170 for his fifty-three years of service.
A lady Of Aix-la- Chapelle has left
that city the sum of $50, 900 marks, the
interest Of which is to enable Young
girls of the laboring classes to acquire
thorough instruction in domestic and
needle work.
/ Mrs. Mathilde Schjott (nee Dunker)
is the most talented critic on the staff
Of Nyt Tidsskrift New Review), which
is at present the most prominent literary
periodical in the Scandinavian king
doms.
i Gen. Boulanger has, at his request,
been furnished by NJ. AMBROSE Thomas
with the musical score of sixteen
national anthems of foreign countries.
and has directed all the military bands
to practice them.
Gaspard Pacaud. aged q. is men,
Der of the Canadian Parliament, with
every prospect Of obtaining prominence
in that body. Two years ago he was a
clerk in Detroit dry-goods store on a
salary Of 80 per week.
i David Turpie. who is claimed by the
Democrats of Indiana rs legally elected
to the United States Senate. served
brief period as Senator in 1868. He
was elected to serve out the unexpired
term of Jesse d. Bright.
| William d. Howclls' wife says that
her husband writes as man saws
wood. The trouble with Mr.. Howells
is that he doesn't keep his pen creased.
rs the wood-sawyer treats his saw to
bacon. and there is more or less
schreeching, rs it were.
/ A girl working in Biddeford (Me.)
mill is the thirty-second child Of the
same father and mother. All her
brothers and sisters write to her every
week, and she has the largest cores
pOndence that is taken from the Ridds-
ford Post Office by woman.
i George Westinghouse. of Pittsburg.
Pa. patentee Of the famous air-brake
and many other valuable inventions.
has manufacturing establishments in
England. France. and Germany and
employs nearly 1000 men. He is a
native Of Schenectady. N. Y. and .
graduate Of Cornell.
/ Sir Stafford Northcotc in his young
manhood was esteemed the cleverest
amateur actor in England, and Mt one
time he actually thought Of going on
the professional stage. Later in life he
J was much interested in the church. and
read the lessons in his son. church 1T
Pynes.
J Capt. William Gardner. whose home
. was in Toledo, died last week in Lon
J don. He was the inventor of the
Gardner gun. now known the world
over. which had been adopted by the
English Government after the United
States had refused to consider it.
, Gen. Wildemar kozyvanowski, who
died in New York Monday, participated
> in the Polish revolution of 1916, and
was compelled to fly disguised, price
being set upon his head. He rose to
the rank of Brigadier-General during
the War in the Union army. When
Alaska became the property of the
; United States he commanded the troops
i there.
The cedar timber business in the
northern portion of the state is one oi
considerable extent. The transactions
of an Oshkosh firm last year amounted
to 100000. The firm is at present
: operating three camps Oh the north
= branch Of the Embarras river. and owns
u large number Of acres of cedar timber
land on the south branch and the main
t river.
DIR. Miller, who was sent on diplo-
matte mission to Mexico. has already
made some valuable discoveries. He
explains that pulque is pronounced